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    16 hours ago

    I’m a firm bug centrist—non-hemipterans can be bugs but they have to be from a terrestrial lineage.

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      14 hours ago

      Haha, my favorite crochet youtuber Complicated Knots made a series of videos on “Bugsmas” (for Christmas) last year. She included in her bugs such things as bees or beetles, but also a snail and a velvet worm. No hemipterans were included though. But following your definition, all those above could be bugs because they are terrestrial.

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        12 hours ago

        I thought it didn’t need to be said that a bug must be an arthropod. smh, goddamn bug radicals